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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The cathedral church of Alexander Nevsky in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia
Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian church row over return of the Archons

June 25, 2012May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

A petition, public protest and open division among the Bulgarian Orthodox Church have followed the church’s new rules legitimising the

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Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci meeting Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev
Bulgaria Europe News 

Kosovo PM Thaçi sees European future, invites Bulgarian investors

June 19, 2012May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kosovo

Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaçi is visiting Bulgaria with a message of optimism about his country’s European future, undeterred by

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meglena kuneva, leader of the citizens for Bulgaria party
Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Kouneva’s party to launch July 1, to fight ‘political cartel’

June 11, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Ahead of the July 1 launch of her political party, Citizens for Bulgaria, Meglena Kouneva has embraced a strategy of

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Bulgarian prime minister Boiko Borissov photo by european peoples party
Bulgaria News 

Approval rating of Bulgarian Government has increased 3% y/y – poll

June 7, 2012June 7, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The approval rating ofBulgaria’s centre-right GERB Government headed by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov increased year-on-year by three per cent to

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

The Sofia Globe: Editorial Charter

June 4, 2012June 15, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

The Sofia Globe is intended for foreign and local readers with an interest in editorial content about, in order of

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Boiko Boyko Borissov Borisov prime minister of Bulgaria
Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s political scene: Doing the splits

June 4, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The beginning of June 2012 finds Bulgaria about a year away from parliamentary elections, and undeclared campaigning already begun –

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Serbian presidential election poster for Tomislav Nikolic
Europe News Perspectives 

Stormy start for Serbia’s Nikolić

June 4, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Serbia

The violence in northern Kosovo around a barricade-clearing operation conducted as Serbia’s new president Tomislav Nikolić was sworn in was

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Nikola Gruevski, prime minister of former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, FYROM
Europe News 

The Macedonia muddle

June 4, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Greece, Macedonia

Ahead of the May 2012 Nato summit in Chicago, Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski sent from Skopje a plea for

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Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the country's second city
Bulgaria News People 

Metropolitan Nikolai condemns Lady Gaga

June 4, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Just days after Lady Gaga was prevented from performing in Indonesia after local Muslim fundamentalists labelled her a devil, she

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